Babies Born ~ May 2009

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Quiet around here :)
Hope you guys are keeping well. We have had some lovely weeks of wonderfully good health but sadly Phoebs is getting snotty once again. I suppose it must be our turn.

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last few weeks have been ordinary here - great days, crummy nights. i've been a bit of an emotional reject - not coping so well with the stuff going on with my body. had a biopsy the other day while investigating weird spotting. it lead to a week of spotting, and then first post m/c af arrived a week early - so i'm now two weeks of bleeding again - not happy!

E has been friikken awesome most of the time - but when the "mummy, you don't understand, my teeth HURT" meltdowns hit, they hit fast and furious! she is developing at such a rapid rate that i just feel blessed every single day to have her - and spend as much time as i possibly can just being with her. as i type, she is sitting on the floor reading at my feet. so cute!

work is flat out at the moment, life is flat out. my arm is in "i give up" mode - it's seriously hurting now. need the stupid thing fixed, but can't afford the month in plaster with a hyperactive toddler to take care of! so i'm at a loss. just treating it as it becomes a problem (so pretty much full time at the moment!

Still reading, mum is here so keeping me occupied, is lovely seeing her with CJ and just hanging out this last two weeks. So that and the fact I seem to be unable to distance myself from the fridge and filling my face have not been posting much - this one via my phone while waiting for toast to cook my effort to reduce the multiple overnight snack fests down to just one! I think am worse this time than with CJ - am always a human dustbin but this is ridiculous!

Kyson, Shayla and I have come down with the germies, grrrr. Shayla's not too bad, just a little bit of booger from time to time. She was snuffly at night for 2 nights, nut is much better now. Kyson is a booger face half the time, but much worse when he has a tanty and cries. If he feels anything like I do then I'm surprised he's not more upset. Looking back on it, there was a night where Shayla was restless and kept waking but didn't want to feed. She would lay next to me grumbling for a few minutes then go back to sleep, and now I wonder if her throat was as sore as mine was a few days later. Poor thing! Fingers crossed we recover quickly!

Vic, I can't believe how close you are to meeting Stirling! Where are you having him, and are you going to want visitors? Lol, can you tell I'm excited to met him? Hehe. Don't worry, I'll make sure these germies are well and truly gone before I come near him ;)

BG, I hope you are feeling better. Your poor wrist always cops a beating :(

KL - having him at Birralee Box Hill, if I manage VBAC hoping won't be there long enough for visitors, but if is Caesar am sure will be hanging out for some - will let you know. I am not getting a late feeling, thinking on time so we shall see. Do you still gave time to make avatars? If so would love if you can do me one - have no idea what would be good just should get a new one to include him.

Still up twice for food last night!!

CJ did a wee on potty yesterday morning and a poo last night, first time she has done anything other than just sit on it - so that was cool, making some progress with mums help.

Vic, I would love to do a new avi for you! :D Shall I just surprise you with some choices?

Vic - any moment now - Tell Stirling to arrive tomorrow so we can share Birthdays hehehehehehe My pick is the 11th!

Today we had our first IVF appt. We both need to go and have some tests as our last ones are 3 years old - ovarian reserve test for me, semen analysis for DH, then we go back on August 3 to discuss the outcomes of that and when to start a cycle - we are on our way. Our FS is going to double my drugs this time seeing as we had a poor response last time (even though we obviously got pregnant we only had 1 fertilised embryo so we were pretty darn lucky), so hopefully this will increase our chances of success.

I was a bit worried as our 2nd car is about to die (what is it with us and cars this year) so we need to find $5000 to buy what we need 2nd hand and the only savings we really had was our IVF stash. However we have decided to redraws some of the money we've paid extra on our mortgage for the car so we can still go ahead with baby#2. I HATE that it revolves around money!!! Anyway, hoping that when we cycle we'll have some success as we can probably squeeze two cycles in money wise (the 2nd with the help of the credit card) but that's about it.

So anyway, bare with me as I am feeling myself falling into the 'my world is revolving around IVF' headspace again!!

BG: :( That all sucks. I am sure you would manage ok with the plaster though - I reckon E would adjust and no doubt surprise you with her empathy.
Vic: LOL, that's funny. Think of the snacking as giving yourself lots of reserves for labour ;) So glad you are able to enjoy some time with your mum and WOOHOO to CJ on her potty achievements! That's fantastic.
KL: The snots SUCK! (Or should I say, blow. LOL!) Hope your lot are all feeling better soon.
Nay: So sorry to hear about the car. But how wonderful that the IVF ball is rolling! I am sure we all understand that this will be a thought-consuming time for you guys. Know that we're always happy to be a sounding board for you if you happen to need it.

We are so far coping with a little bit of snottiness - that seems to be the worst of it thus far which is a relief. My neck is killing me and I know it's because of the way I lie next to Natty's bed playing on my phone while she falls asleep. Deeply ingrained habits are very hard to break though!
Work is very quiet at the moment so I'm enjoying catching up on my social media :) Has been good seeing all the pics on FB!

I'm fuming at my dog right now! Earlier today I think he bit Kyson's hand. It wasn't even like Kyson was playing outside and I had left him alone with the dog. I was standing in the kitchen and Kyson was at the sliding door (literally 2-3 meters at most). Out of the corner of my eye I saw Kyson start to go outside and Akeida jumped away and made a yelpy startled kind of noise. Then Kyson threw the coin he was holding (he likes money at the moment) and he turned to me and started crying. I thought Akeida just scared him with the noise so ask I went to him I was telling him it was ok and that he just got scared. But then I noticed he was holding his hand as he came for a cuddle. I had a look at it and it seemed fine, but there was a small mark that might have been a tooth mark. So I think the dog actually snapped at Kyson and got his hand a little.

He's never bitten anyone before. Some times if he gets startled he'll yelp and swing around with a snapping action, but he's never once bitten. He's not the most tolerant type of breed, but we know that which is why we're always close by when the dog is near the kids. It's very possible that he just snapped his teeth when he got startled and didn't actually mean to get Kyson, but gosh it's scary to think he might have done it on purpose :( He's also not the most obedient of dogs (although he'll do almost anything for a food treat. He remembers all his training when there's food involved...) so when I tried to get him to come inside so I could put him in the laundry there was no way he wanted to come near me. *sigh*

oh no! is it possible Kyson jumped and knocked his hand on the door or surrounds? i know i've knocked myself on the edge of the bricks near the door more times than i should admit... hopefully it wasn't your beautiful furbaby!

Stirling Arthur arrived yesterday 17th - his due date via emergency Caesar - got stuck like his big sister - 4.36kg 53cm. So no VBAC but all good, happy with how all went.

Only just got phone with power so back later to update more. He is very like CJ.

Huge congratulations again Vic! I'm so happy for you, Ryan and CJ. How exciting.

The photos of Stirling are devine. Of course, we all knew he was going to be gorgeous :)

Much love to you all. Enjoy those precious newborn snuggles!

Awesome congrats heaps :) i read on FB that he was 5.4kg lol someone got a little mixed up i think

Ha yes Ryan did that update (typical dad not focusing on detail :)) as I forgot to bring a charger and phone was dead

Congrats babe, I've enjoyed 'meeting' him on FB. Hope you are well and recovering from your C-section. I had a giggle at Lee's comment that he is now a numbers man re the tax return submission gag :)

Hope you, Ryan and Cerys enjoy your babymoon. Stirling is gorgeous, just like his big sister xxx

Congrats again Vic!

would love to post some more about E, but as is always the case, i'm jumping online before running out the door to work!
maybe i should type up a reply at work, email it home, and post in the few minutes i have at home tonight before E decides to maul me lol

Congrats Vic on the arrival of Stirling!!

Thanks for the congrats everyone. All going well here, he is very like CJ in almost every respect (the main difference I have noticed is how he holds and moves his legs, bending them up alot and kicking - CJ never did that, and now I realise he is more normal and her lack of leg movements was probably down to the hip dysplasia - he showed no sign of it in the hospital exit check but we have a referral for an ultrasound to double check just in case).

CJ now seems enormous, and also seems to have grown up so much. She seems to adore him and gets distressed if he cries, and when she sees him she says "Sooo cute!"

Having my mum here is fantastic, both from the helping out point of view but also seeing how she does things with CJ, she does things I have not thought to do and normally are great ideas - is like hanging out with other parents you often pick up tips - but because she is here 24/7 on a more intensive scale. E.g. After dinner she gives CJ a flannel to clean herself up and a little mirror so she can see where the food is, and this works really well - would never have occurred to me to do it.

Toilet training is also progressing reasonably well (mainly thanks to mum again) we have had a few days where haven't had anything done in a nappy, and she asks to go 50% of the time. I am really happy with this, as with Stirling's arrival is not maybe the best timing to do it, and also because I haven't got the commitment to go hardcore with the 3 day potty plan etc, so we put her in nappies to go out often just for our convenience really. She says "I do big wee, big girl, no more nappies" so she clearly gets the concept but maybe doesn't recognize the signal she needs to go quite right yet (particularly if she is busy).

Anyway tea time - will probably get a birth story up sometime today for those interested.

I STILL haven't finished Shayla's birth story! Lol!